Thomas Giel

477 total citations · 1 hit paper
6 papers, 312 citations indexed

About

Thomas Giel is a scholar working on Sociology and Political Science, Social Psychology and Gender Studies. According to data from OpenAlex, Thomas Giel has authored 6 papers receiving a total of 312 indexed citations (citations by other indexed papers that have themselves been cited), including 5 papers in Sociology and Political Science, 3 papers in Social Psychology and 2 papers in Gender Studies. Recurrent topics in Thomas Giel's work include Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (3 papers), Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (2 papers) and Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (2 papers). Thomas Giel is often cited by papers focused on Motivation and Self-Concept in Sports (3 papers), Sport and Mega-Event Impacts (2 papers) and Job Satisfaction and Organizational Behavior (2 papers). Thomas Giel collaborates with scholars based in Germany. Thomas Giel's co-authors include Kirstin Hallmann, Christoph Breuer and Daniel Memmert and has published in prestigious journals such as Sport Management Review, European Sport Management Quarterly and Journal of Sports Economics.

In The Last Decade

Thomas Giel

6 papers receiving 295 citations

Hit Papers

align trajectories

What are hit papers?

Hit papers significantly outperform the citation benchmark for their cohort. A paper qualifies if it has ≥500 total citations, achieves ≥1.5× the top-1% citation threshold for papers in the same subfield and year (this is the minimum needed to enter the top 1%, not the average within it), or reaches the top citation threshold in at least one of its specific research topics.

eSports – Competitive sports or recreational activity?

2017 253 citations Kirstin Hallmann, Thomas Giel Sport Management Review profile →

Peers — A (Enhanced Table)

Peers by citation overlap · career bar shows stage (early→late) cites · hero ref

Name	h						Papers	Cites
Thomas Giel Germany	5	241	82	80	44	37	6	312
Tom Brock United Kingdom	12	200 0.8×	37 0.5×	36 0.5×	20 0.5×	65 1.8×	24	255
Nicholas Taylor Canada	9	224 0.9×	54 0.7×	82 1.0×	22 0.5×	48 1.3×	22	270
Nicholas Taylor Canada	8	248 1.0×	56 0.7×	87 1.1×	17 0.4×	49 1.3×	31	297
Michael B. Devlin United States	12	223 0.9×	13 0.2×	188 2.4×	53 1.2×	8 0.2×	30	334
Eileen Kennedy United Kingdom	9	142 0.6×	35 0.4×	92 1.1×	24 0.5×	15 0.4×	28	296
Ian Ritchie Canada	13	300 1.2×	17 0.2×	189 2.4×	73 1.7×	13 0.4×	30	369
Bridget Blodgett United States	8	255 1.1×	20 0.2×	177 2.2×	28 0.6×	70 1.9×	15	331
Rowan Daneels Belgium	9	192 0.8×	45 0.5×	24 0.3×	8 0.2×	13 0.4×	15	257
Faltin Karlsen Norway	9	168 0.7×	20 0.2×	19 0.2×	9 0.2×	32 0.9×	24	234
Maarten De Backer Belgium	10	32 0.1×	226 2.8×	68 0.8×	15 0.3×	16 0.4×	20	416

Countries citing papers authored by Thomas Giel

Since Specialization

Citations

This map shows the geographic impact of Thomas Giel's research. It shows the number of citations coming from papers published by authors working in each country. You can also color the map by specialization and compare the number of citations received by Thomas Giel with the expected number of citations based on a country's size and research output (numbers larger than one mean the country cites Thomas Giel more than expected).

Fields of papers citing papers by Thomas Giel

Since Specialization

Physical SciencesHealth SciencesLife SciencesSocial Sciences

This network shows the impact of papers produced by Thomas Giel. Nodes represent research fields, and links connect fields that are likely to share authors. Colored nodes show fields that tend to cite the papers produced by Thomas Giel. The network helps show where Thomas Giel may publish in the future.

Co-authorship network of co-authors of Thomas Giel

This figure shows the co-authorship network connecting the top 25 collaborators of Thomas Giel. A scholar is included among the top collaborators of Thomas Giel based on the total number of citations received by their joint publications. Widths of edges represent the number of papers authors have co-authored together. Node borders signify the number of papers an author published with Thomas Giel. Thomas Giel is excluded from the visualization to improve readability, since they are connected to all nodes in the network.

All Works

Sort: Min cites: Since: Top N: Style:

6 of 6 papers shown

1.

Giel, Thomas, et al.. (2022). Corruption and Self-Sabotage in Sporting Competitions – An Experimental Approach to Match-Fixing Behavior and the Influence of Deterrence Factors. Journal of Sports Economics. 24(4). 497–525. 1 indexed citations

2.

Giel, Thomas & Christoph Breuer. (2021). The general and facet-specific job satisfaction of voluntary referees based on the model of effort-reward imbalance. European Sport Management Quarterly. 23(4). 1136–1158. 11 indexed citations

3.

Hallmann, Kirstin, et al.. (2021). Consumer profiles of women’s football spectators. Soccer and Society. 23(8). 1010–1024. 6 indexed citations

4.

Giel, Thomas & Christoph Breuer. (2019). The determinants of the intention to continue voluntary football refereeing. Sport Management Review. 23(2). 242–255. 33 indexed citations

5.

Hallmann, Kirstin, et al.. (2018). Determinants of elite athletes’ extrinsic and intrinsic career success. Sport Business and Management An International Journal. 8(4). 375–392. 8 indexed citations

6.

Hallmann, Kirstin & Thomas Giel. (2017). eSports – Competitive sports or recreational activity?. Sport Management Review. 21(1). 14–20. 253 indexed citations breakdown →

Rankless uses publication and citation data sourced from OpenAlex, an open and comprehensive bibliographic database. While OpenAlex provides broad and valuable coverage of the global research landscape, it—like all bibliographic datasets—has inherent limitations. These include incomplete records, variations in author disambiguation, differences in journal indexing, and delays in data updates. As a result, some metrics and network relationships displayed in Rankless may not fully capture the entirety of a scholar's output or impact.

Explore authors with similar magnitude of impact